Herd w/Colin Cowherd engagement report
@TheHerd - 486K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 592 interactions against 486K followers, an engagement rate of 0.122%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 44K times each, and 1.36% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.96% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Herd w/Colin Cowherd's engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 56% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.122%, Herd w/Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 230 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Mar 24, 202514x their median
We only get @BillSimmons on the show once in a blue moon To celebrate, here's his entire 26-minute long discussion with @ColinCowherd https://t.co/CXkzN8apHx
- Sep 18, 202611x their median
"I watched John Elway for years. Even HE wasn't this... There is no team I have ever watched who is more defined by a single player." @colincowherd thinks Josh Allen is separating himself as the NFL's best QB https://t.co/pp5OkouChw
- Aug 21, 202610x their median
"I don't feel sorry for a lot of pro athletes... Then there's Joe Burrow. I feel bad for him." @colincowherd reacts to Burrow's comments about the Bengals organization https://t.co/mdJX6gY0Bx
- Sep 17, 20266.4x their median
"There are a lot of red flags with Deshaun, I'll just keep it classy and talk about the lack of self-awareness... Rarely available and never great." @colincowherd on Deshaun Watson's latest tone-deaf comments to the Cleveland media https://t.co/KodNtd28nb
- Sep 16, 20265.9x their median
"Ben Johnson and Curt Cignetti have a commonality: The standard isn't winning. The standard is the process. Winning will come. Nick Saban always said too many compliments is rat poison." @colincowherd thinks Ben Johnson is channeling Saban after the Bears' 59 point explosion https://t.co/am8jpmUxLp
- Aug 31, 20265.7x their median
"I don't understand the continued disrespect for Jalen Hurts... I think most of the disrespect comes from the fact that he was not a 1st round pick." @jasonrmcintyre reacts to a QB tiers list placing Jalen Hurts in the same category as Kyler Murray & Daniel Jones 😬 https://t.co/S7yxbzVB9h
- Aug 25, 20265.5x their median
"She is Steph Curry but with a Michael Jordan mindset. All business. All basketball. Has no opinion or comment on the controversies." @colincowherd argues the WNBA needs to embrace Caitlin Clark while the league is surrounded by controversy https://t.co/dWSJlDxk7s
- Sep 14, 20265.1x their median
"Smart teams take leads. Physical, tough teams seal the game. They can't seal wins... Green Bay is a soft team. I'm sorry, but they are." @colincowherd on Matt LaFleur & the Packers' 6-game losing streak https://t.co/NmBA6dmYUL
- Sep 14, 20265.0x their median
"A Harbaugh taking over a blue blood is like Scorsese directing a mob movie. It just feels right!" @colincowherd called it. John Harbaugh has made the Giants better immediately https://t.co/Bw3soMHJzo
- Aug 24, 20264.9x their median
"For Cleveland sports radio: Christmas came in August. This is going to infuriate fans... I have no sympathy for losing NFL franchises." @colincowherd reacts to Deshaun Watson being named Browns starting QB over Shedeur Sanders https://t.co/ZJJjiEXbs2
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 592 interactions against 486K followers, an engagement rate of 0.122%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 44K times each, and 1.36% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.96% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
- What is Herd w/Colin Cowherd's engagement rate on X?
- Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) has an engagement rate of 0.122%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 486,003 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.122%, Herd w/Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @TheHerd have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @TheHerd post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.